[ale] printers

[Scott Castaline]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu May 8 2008, Scott Castaline wrote:
>   
>>> hmm, failed... looked at hplip, mine is 2.8.2, apt-get install says i
>>> have the latest, but hp has 2.8.4 ...
>>>
>>> I already have my hp 8510 setup as a remote printer for my wifes laptop..
>>>  
>>>       
>> what was the error? did the gui ever start, or did it just print a lot
>> of text and quit.
>>     
>
> it starts, tells me there is no PPD, so I select OTHER, and select the 
> hpofficeject 5600 ( mine is a 5610). It says:
>
> # hp-setup
>
> HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.4)
> Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 7.2
>
> Copyright (c) 2001-8 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
> under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
>
> Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the 
> authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based 
> authentication failed
> error: PPD not file found. An appropriate PPD file could not be found. Please 
> check your HPLIP install, use <i>Select Other...</i>, or download one from 
> linuxprinting.org.
> error: Printer queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again.
>
> error: Fax queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again.
> error: Printer queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again.
> error: Fax queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again.
> lpr: The printer or class was not found.
> error: Print command failed with exit code 256!
>
> Done.
>
> -----------
> I restart cups, and the printer doesn't show up. My 8510 does, but it was 
> already there.
>
>
>   
According to the hplip site Ubuntu 8.04 directly supports that printer, 
so assuming that ( and I don't like to use the word assume), all of the 
software was installed to include all of the ppd files (which are the 
actual drivers). As plug and play Ubuntu is supposed to be, it should 
have detected it and installed the necessary sftwe. I know with Fedora 
8, I didn't have any problems switching from a 2610 to a 7780L HP. You 
may want to check through synaptic (?) (or whatever the pkg mgr name is, 
I don't remember, and see if the foomatic ppd package has been 
installed. Also run hp-check, it's a diagnostic that checks to see if 
and what you maybe missing and other related problems. It will dump what 
scrolls on the screen into a file hp-check.log. Run it as root or sudo 
hp-check.